The Confederacy of Dunces that emerged to vie for the GOP presidential primary certainly must have some could-have-been candidates rethinking their decision. After the swift, and often surreal, rises and eventual falls of Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain, the race is pretty much down to Newt Ginrich (at…
Boy oh boy does everybody hate, hate, hate Rick Scott. Everybody! Well, more than seven in ten Florida voters can’t stand the guy, at least, according to a new poll out this morning from the Public Policy Polling firm.Scott’s 26 percent approval rating is so dismal, it got us at…
Even the dramas of Tallahassee seem enviable to the bizarre family court case ex-Gov. Charlie Crist now finds himself in the center of. Crist married the then-Carole Rome during his term as Governor, and the two made plans to integrate Carol’s two daughters into their lives. Now however, the girl’s father, Todd Rome,…
Rep. Connie Mack IV has only been in the race for the GOP senate nomination for two days and he already has a monster lead. He’s ahead of the rest of the field by double digits in one-on-one match ups, and seems to have a wide base of support among…
Will Art Basel Miami Beach get a Wall Street-style occupation this week? The art fair warned gallerists of the possibility, and rumors are swirling. Now OccupyArtBasel.com is live, but right now it’s just a Tumblr blog filled with a mini-manifesto and a Occupy movement related pictures and links. There’s also…
How far has Herman Cain fallen? Even controversial South Florida congressman Allen West is kicking him when he’s down. About murmurs that Cain is “reassessing” his campaign and thinking about pulling out despite having been the front-runner not so long ago, West went on a Washington, D.C. radio station this…
Florida’s Republican voters are making a firm stand for the conservative, pro-family values that have defined their party for decades by fleeing en masse from Herman Cain after multiple sexual harassment charges and new allegations that he carried on a 14-year affair.Yessir, there’s no place in the GOP for that…
Where will the one percent be this week? Glugging down free champagne and writing checks for million dollar art works during Art Basel Miami Beach, of course. Naturally, rumors of the 99 percenters staging an Occupy Wall Street related protest at the ritzy art fair are swirling, and ABMB is…
Marco Rubio may be South Florida’s star Cuban-American politician, but he’s not endorsing anyone in the presidential primary. So, the Republican endorsement prize in these parts is, as it’s been for quite some time, picking up the backing of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart and retired Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Mitt Romney…
Occupy Miami protesters took a break from camping out at Government Center this afternoon to fight an ill all too familiar to the Magic City — mortgage fraud and a foreclosure suffered by one of their own.Angela Samuels, a longtime community activist with One Miami, local unions, and Occupy Miami,…
Dozens of news cameras and reporters armed with tape recorders have attempted to explain the scene down at the Occupy Miami camp in Government Center, but sometimes someone armed with a sketchbook and a patient set of ears manages to capture the moment even better. Sarah Glidden, who recently published…
For years, someone calling himself “The Weedmanhippy” has been wedging cryptic, self-promoting fliers into the front of New Times boxes across Miami Beach. At first, we were kind of annoyed. Then, earlier this week, we finally gave in and called him.The Weedmanhippy is actually Billy Blank: part SoBe Socrates, part…
Video of America’s first African-American first lady being booed by a largely white crowd of NASCAR fans this weekend in Homestead was a slightly troubling sight, but Rush Limbaugh predictably hasn’t helped the matter much. He went on his radio show today to defend the NASCAR fans and excuse the…
Ritch Workman, the Republican state representative from Melbourne who has already introduced a bill to legalize dwarf tossing, is back with another stunningly stupid and controversial bill. Just eight days after Workman finalized his own divorce, he introduced a new piece of legislation that would radically rewrite the state’s alimony…
The first steps towards the possibility of legalizing medical marijuana in Florida are underway. Last month State Rep. Jeff Session, a Democrat from Lake Worth, introduced a resolution that would allow Floridians to vote on the matter in 2012. Now, state Sen. Larcenia Bullard, a Miami Democrat, has stepped up…
Since the Occupy movements started pitching tents and politically motivated fits alike, the rest of the world’s been asking, “What the hell do you expect to achieve from sleeping under the stars and smelling like last week’s lunch?” Futurist Jacque Fresco and his partner Roxanne Meadows, creators of The Venus Project, are…
Hundreds gathered in Jose Martí Park yesterday in Little Havana, tromped east on Calle Ocho into Brickell then paraded through downtown Miami in a protest march that heard just as many “Sak ap fets?” as “Que bola aseres?” alongside chants of “End The Fed,” and “If you can hear my…
The popularity of the U.S. Congress is at an all-time low. A recent CBS News/New York Times poll shows that just 9 percent of Americans approve of the federal legislative body. How bad is that? Well, just about the only thing Americans hate more than Congress is Fidel Castro…
Even with the unofficial entrance of Connie Mack IV into the race, the GOP Senate nomination in Florida is still a wide-open race. Today Nick Loeb, the grandson of one of the Lehman Brothers and, so much more important, the boyfriend of Sofia Vergara, will make an announcement in South…
We’d expect a poorly Photoshopped picture of President Barack Obama lip locking with Venezuela’s controversial leader Hugo Chávez to appear on some Miami Republican’s blog, not in an ad associated with a clothing company. Yet United Colors of Benetton is responsible for the bizarre image. It’s apparently supposed to get us…
All things considered, the Occupy Miami protests at Government Center in downtown have been relatively peaceful, and Miami-Dade County has been pretty lenient about dealing with protesters. Though, on Thursday they asked the protesters to move about 50 feet to the north lawn of the center while a crane was…
Bills filed in the Florida House and Senate would take direct action at the activities of the Westboro Baptist Church. The Kansas-based fringe church, classified by many experts as an active hate group, is well known for protesting military and other high profile funerals with signs reading “God Hates Fags,”…
